At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were not allowed to learn culture. Later, it was found that the civil power was too strong, and a school was set up in the palace, so that the little eunuchs could learn culture in the school, so as to support the power of the eunuchs and restrain the outer court.

The system of the Ming Dynasty has achieved the pinnacle of the art of balance, and almost every department has a corresponding department to balance.

In this way, it will not lead to excessive power in a certain department, which in turn threatens the imperial power.

The eunuch power sometimes does tilt towards the government and the opposition, but it must also be attached to the power of the emperor, and even if the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, the interests and the emperor are basically the same.

Therefore, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty passed the improvement of the guò system, and he could be lazy in government affairs, and he ran to do what he liked, and the world would not be in chaos.

When I came to the school, there were more than sixty eunuchs studying, some were young eunuchs, and many were fourteen or fifteen-year-old eunuchs, the same age as Zhu Youxiao.

In this anti-corruption, the twenty-four departments in the palace, except for a few departments, have not been affected too much, most of the department's palm print eunuchs, as well as the middle-level management eunuchs, are all ten and nine empty, as many as 40 people have been implicated, and the dirty silver confiscated has reached 80,000 taels.

Zhu Youxiao immediately selected more than a dozen young eunuchs of the same age as himself in the school, and then appointed them as palm seal eunuchs in various departments.

It looks ridiculous, and then Zhu Youxiao wants this effect.

He just wants to make the Donglin Party feel that he is ridiculous, and it is generally easier to create this feeling by throwing money, but Zhu Youxiao is not a real faint king, what he lacks is money, how can he spend money indiscriminately. In addition to spending money indiscriminately, do not miss anything to create a sense of absurdity to make the Donglin Party relax its vigilance.

These fourteen or fifteen-year-old eunuchs are still relatively idealistic in their thinking and have not been exposed to power struggles too much, and it is actually beneficial for Zhu Youxiao to promote them.

As long as you do a good job in anti-corruption work and supervise the operation of various departments in the palace, then all departments will be full of vitality and less likely to be corrupt than promoting those old fritters. The biggest advantage is that these eunuchs who have just come out of the academy have a cleaner background, and when the emperor promotes them, they will have a stronger sense of loyalty to the emperor.

The middle-level management of each department is held by eunuchs with old and experienced experience, and they are all appointed by Zhu Youxiao himself. The reason why he did not fake the hands of others was mainly because he was afraid that Li Jinzhong would support his cronies in the process and guide Li Jinzhong to be too powerful.

In history, it is very likely that Zhu Youxiao was not killed by Li Jinzhong, but now Zhu Youxiao is still guarding against it and not letting too much power in the palace be concentrated in Li Jinzhong's hands.

Anyway, the government can't intervene, and Zhu Youxiao still has time to manage the palace.

After some rectification in the palace, the atmosphere suddenly improved a lot, and the eunuchs who could go out of the palace to purchase goods were also replaced.

In order to improve the quality of life of the palace maids and eunuchs, Zhu Youxiao also opened a store in the imperial city, which supplied all kinds of rouge gouache, daily necessities, as well as fruits, cakes and the like to the eunuchs and palace maids.

This made the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace get a lot of benefits, especially since they have a few taels of silver every month, and they are not short of money in their hands, and they can usually go to the shops in the imperial city to buy some things they like, or buy some delicious food.

"Your Majesty, great joy! Today, the shopkeeper of the glaze shop reported that a Jiangnan merchant ordered three supreme luxury glass mirrors and bought two glazed tile licenses. Directly received 500,000 taels. Li Jinzhong rushed to the Heart Cultivation Hall to report to Zhu Youxiao this day.

"How much money has the glass store received now?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Your Majesty, in the past half a month, 1.36 million taels of silver have been earned, although the hot selling tide in the capital has passed, but there are many merchants who sell mirrors and windows with glass to other places, especially those sold to the south of the Yangtze River." Li Jinzhong reported.

"Hmmm! Not bad, not bad. Zhu Youxiao nodded happily and said, "This price can be maintained for a while, after all, the purchasing power in Jiangnan is still very strong." ”

"Your Majesty, what should you do with all this silver? Is it deposited into the treasury first? Li Jinzhong asked, Zhu Youxiao shook his head, and said: "The specific profit must be kept secret, and the ministers of the DPRK and China cannot know it." But the ministers must have known that we had made money, so they put half of it in the treasury and the remaining half outside the palace. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Jinzhong couldn't help but feel sincere admiration for the emperor, he was indeed the Son of Heaven! To make money is to have a hand. Li Jinzhong, who was born in a peasant family, was not so cunning in his mind, and he still had a great fear of imperial power.

"By the way, how is the thing I told you to do?" Zhu Youxiao asked Li Jinzhong, and Li Jinzhong knelt down and said, "The emperor's atonement has not been completely done. However, when Wang An was in the palace, he was already under the surveillance of the East Factory. Outside the palace, his house has only developed an informant at present, and he is still the subordinate responsible for sprinkling and sweeping. Mainly, there is a lack of funding. ”

"First take 100,000 taels from the internal treasury and allocate it to the East Factory, and do it quickly. Wang An must be stared at to death, I must know who he has contacted in the palace, and I must know who he has contacted outside the palace, and it is best to let me know the content of Wang An's conversation with others. "Zhu Youxiao knows that the main problem of this kind of spy agency is funding, as long as there is enough funding, intelligence can be developed. So he was not stingy, and directly took out 100,000 taels of silver.

"Yes, Your Majesty." After Li Jinzhong received the order, he hurriedly retired and immediately went to the East Factory to make arrangements.

At this time, Wang An's minions in the palace have basically been cut off, so Wang An is basically under the surveillance of Dongchang in the palace. Even when he went to the hut, there were eyes staring at him from afar.

The East Factory and the inspection team, now the most closely watched is still the Shangshan Supervisor. This was the place where the emperor was fed, and Zhu Youxiao had to be careful.

Every day before eating, someone must test him for poison first, but this still makes Zhu Youxiao feel at ease, if it is some chronic poison, eat less and have no reaction, the poison test will have no effect. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao formulated a very strict system for the Shang Shan Supervisor.

First of all, idlers are exempted, but any palace maid eunuch who is not a Shangshan supervisor cannot take a step into Shangshan Prison. Day and night, there are guards on duty.

When the imperial kitchen of the Shangshan Supervisor enters and leaves, he must also be searched to prevent any poison from being brought in.

Every day, the ingredients used in the cooking must be checked to prevent someone from poisoning the ingredients. The oil, salt, sauce and vinegar used in cooking were sealed by several eunuchs arranged by Zhu Youxiao, and they were taken out when they were needed.

During the cooking of the imperial kitchen, there are also people on the side to monitor to prevent people from taking advantage of the opportunity to poison, and in the process of serving to the table, the whole process is also monitored.

Anyway, the links that can be poisoned have been prevented.

Such a strict system naturally makes the imperial chefs a little worried. However, after getting acquainted with it for a while, I gradually got used to it and cooperated very seriously. The main reason is that Zhu Youxiao has improved the treatment of the imperial chefs, as long as he is the eunuch of the Shang Shan Supervisor, the salary is higher than that of other departments, especially the head chef of the Shang Shan Supervisor, the monthly salary is as high as three hundred taels of silver, and the assistant chef also has one hundred taels of Yu Lu every month.

When the income of the imperial chefs is high, they will naturally not be bought. At the same time, every time the emperor eats, even if it is not in line with the taste, he will give them advice with a pleasant face, and when he feels delicious, he will also praise a few words and give some rewards. This made the imperial chefs have a heartfelt support for the emperor, and naturally they don't want the emperor to be poisoned, so they are carefully inspected and engrossed when cooking.

In terms of daily living, Hakka is still responsible. The Hakka family brought him up, so naturally it was impossible to harm him, so Zhu Youxiao was more relieved.

After some actions, the hidden dangers in the palace have been cleared a lot.

Zhu Youxiao felt that it was time for him to seize the military power, and the power came out of the barrel of a gun! Having military power is the greatest guarantee. So Zhu Youxiao decided to inspect the pro-army, so he asked Li Jinzhong to investigate the situation of the pro-army.